tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1948420587779787298.post7060606548013737077..comments2023-06-16T05:25:55.741-07:00Comments on Elliptica: I am a truth fundamentalist.Lynethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06357023675142716573noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1948420587779787298.post-61168016104592650142007-04-07T12:52:00.000-07:002007-04-07T12:52:00.000-07:00Actually, it's easier: "fundamentalist" implies do...Actually, it's easier: "fundamentalist" implies dogmatic adherence to a religious position. Radicals of comparable secular ideologies, such as socialism and libertarianism, are only tagged as fundamentalists when they display a singular attachment to some scripture or almost metaphysical idea. The only actual example I've seen is Objectivism; even run of the mill hardcore libertarianism doesn't qualify.<BR/><BR/>But a corollary of that is that there are a lot of radicals that are in fact equivalent to fundamentalists, even if they don't care much for scripture. The three examples I keep referring to are radical feminists (think Catharine MacKinnon), communists of any stripe, and hardcore libertarians (anyone right of Hayek). I used to say that there's no comparable radicalism among people who just oppose religion, but then I read a few disturbing things about Sam Harris and to some extent Richard Dawkins that make me doubt that.Alon Levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12195377309045184452noreply@blogger.com